Daily Coping 24 Jan 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-24
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Blog Posts
Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
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Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
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Why Is “WHERE 1=0” Slow?
I saw a question the other day, questioning why they’re creation of temporary tables was so slow. What they were doing was (a much more complicated version of) this:...
2022-01-24 (first published: 2022-01-10)
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Data Thoughts – Microsoft Exams and Simulations
G’day, I’ve based my career around Microsoft products on the Data Platform. The first product that I seriously learnt was Microsoft SQL Server back around 2000. I was lucky...
2022-01-23
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Architecture – The Perfect Enemy
When I was younger, I always wanted the perfect solution to an IT problem. I remember getting into argument after argument trying to insist upon the perfect configuration, setup,...
2022-01-21 (first published: 2022-01-10)
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Daily Coping 21 Jan 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-21
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T-SQL Tuesday 146: Where should business logic reside?
I am trying to get started on blogging again this year…T-SQL Tuesday came in handy with a great topic. This month’s host is Andy Yun(t |b). Andy’s challenge for...
2022-01-21 (first published: 2022-01-11)
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Daily Coping 20 Jan 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-01-20
32 reads
How to tell if Change Data Capture (CDC) is working as expected
I’m not sure how many of you use Change Data Capture (CDC) on your instances, but I’ve had to support it for a while now and I thought I’d...
2022-01-20
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Blogs
Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
By Steve Jones
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows...
How I Migrated to Azure PostgreSQL Flex from Single Server
I did a couple of posts previously on dumping/restoring Azure PostgreSQL databases and also...
Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
By Brian Kelley
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and...
Forums
WHERE condition using ='value' returns different results that using IN('value')
Have an interesting scenario - user found a discrepancy with rows returned when running...
Complex Query (Multiple Tables & Joins) - Need to Restrict to Max Date
I am using the query listed below. USE GAGETRAK_26237 SELECT G.Gage_ID 'ID', G.Model_No 'Model',...
Unknown Token Received From SQL Server
I have an issue when a stored procedure is executed from the SQL Server...